Nice find, thanks for posting.

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Prophylactically! Don't see that often.

Article text in English:

It was through a study led by Monash University in partnership with the Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, both in Australia, that doctor Lucy Kerr, a native of Piracicaba and who lived for five years in Rio Claro, opted for the use of the medication Ivermectin in patients with Covid-19. The scientists noted that a single dose of the drug was able to fight SARS-CoV-2 by halving it in 24 hours and eliminating it in 48 hours.

Not so. The Monash people did a bunch of doses of different concentrations and looked at how they impacted the virus.

“After reading this study, I attended a sequence of 20 patients with Covid-19 and all of them managed to treat and cure in 48 hours as recommended, using weight-adjusted Ivermectin, with the recommended dose, although four more serious cases required a second dose, ”the doctor told the Jornal Cidade report.

Following the typical 200mcg/kg?

Lucy said that at first she was amazed by the effectiveness, but then she wanted to share the experience: “I command a group of 570 doctors between WhatsApp and Telegram and put everything that happened for them. It was then that the group started to do the same and everyone had the same positive experience. Some then started using Ivermectin prophylactically because they had to treat patients with Covid-19 on the front lines and obviously did not want to acquire the disease. And nobody got it ”.

Damn. Great result. I wish it was documented in a way that public health / MDs would find persuasive.

The doctor analyzes that, although this is an observational study, it has great value for the results obtained: “I have already heard of a group in Peru that treated more than 700 patients with Covid-19 with the drug and the results were spectacular. Including patients who were in the ICU with a barbaric reduction in mortality. More recently I learned of a study in the Dominican Republic where doctors in the region were able to discharge more than 500 patients in a very short time also using the drug ”.

The DR result was one of the earliest, 6 (?) weeks ago. I'm not familiar with the Peru result. Re-read the Peru articles?

In view of the experience, Dr. Lucy Kerr makes a point of warning about two points that are fundamental for her: “One very important thing to be reported is that the dose on the package insert is not the dose that treats the coronavirus. Whoever wants to be treated has to seek a doctor who knows this treatment and uses the correct dose, otherwise it will not work. Everything has to be very controlled by the health professional who has to analyze the patient's symptoms, weight and a series of other issues. I want to emphasize very well that it is not for anyone to self-medicate ”.

But no guidance about how to figure out the dose? Grrrrrr.

Asked about the future of the pandemic, the doctor is straightforward: “Covid has a cure and we can solve this disease in a very short time by doing a large-scale task force treatment in the population considering that the side effects of Ivermectin are very low. In my opinion, it is a drug that deserves to be further studied and valued, as it has a broken patent, nobody will make money from it, it has a low cost and has been on the market since 1987. Health cannot be political ”, she concludes.

Hear, hear! :)

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Good discussion on /r/coronavirus.

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